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2 unusual facts about Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham


James Erisey

Erisey was captain of the "White Lion", a private warship owned by Charles Lord Howard of Effingham, who at the time was Lord Admiral of England.

Željko Lučić

Some of the Verdi roles which he has sung in Frankfurt are Amonasro in Aida, the Count di Luna in Il trovatore, The Duke of Nottinghamin Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, Ezio in Attila, Germont, Guy de Montfort in Les vêpres siciliennes, and Renato in Un ballo in maschera.


Birmingham South by-election, 1911

The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal Unionist MP, Charles Howard, becoming the tenth Earl of Carlisle.

Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham

In July 1563, Catherine married Charles Howard (1536–1624), later 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, and first Earl of Nottingham (1597).

Charles Bury

Charles Howard-Bury (1881–1963), British explorer and politician, great-grandson of the above

Charles Howard-Bury

A member of the Howard family, he was born at Charleville Castle, King's County, Ireland, the only son of Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury (1846–1885), son of the Honourable James Howard.

It was at this time that Henry Newman of The Statesman in Calcutta (now Kolkata) obtained descriptions from the expedition's porters on their return to Darjeeling.

Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk

His longtime mistress, Mary Ann Gibbon (a cousin of Edward Gibbon), was reputed to be his secret third wife and she had five children by him, including two sons who were officers of arms, Matthew Howard-Gibbon, and Edward Howard-Gibbon.

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle

In 1672 he became one of the commissioners for the office of Lord Lieutenant of Durham, and in 1673 deputy earl marshal.

Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham

Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Nottingham (25 December 1610 – 26 April 1681) was the son of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham by his second wife, the former Margaret Stuart.

Charles Howard, 9th Earl of Suffolk

They were, indeed successful in securing posts at his accession as George I in 1714; Charles as Groom of the Bedchamber to the King, and Henrietta as a Woman of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales.

Edward Chamberlayne

At the Restoration he returned to England, in 1669 became secretary to Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, and went to Stockholm to invest Charles XI of Sweden with the Order of the Garter.

Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray

Lady Margaret Stuart (1591 – 4 August 1639), married firstly as his second wife Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, by whom she had issue; and secondly William Monson, Viscount Monson

Holme Lacy

He thereupon assumed the name and arms of Scudamore, and had by her an only daughter and heiress, Frances (1750-1820), wife of Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk to whom the property then in part descended, and, together with other valuable estates in this county, and Gloucestershire, was added to the princely domain of the Howards.

James Dallaway

He had dedicated his Origin and Progress of Heraldry to Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal, and through the Duke's influence he was appointed chaplain and physician to the British embassy to the Ottoman Empire led by Robert Liston.

James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray

Lady Margaret Stuart (1591- 4 August 1639), married firstly as his second wife Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, by whom she had issue; and secondly William Monson, Viscount Monson

John Curr

That August, shortly before the expiry of the lease of Sheffield colliery (in Sheffield Park), he wrote a report on it for the Duke of Norfolk.

Matthew Browne

In 1600 he was appointed deputy lieutenant of Surrey to Lord Charles Howard.

Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet

By his wife, Mary (d. 1708), daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, he had three sons and one daughter, all of whom died young, and are buried with Fenwick at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

The English Patient

(It should be noted that Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, was an actual historical person, who did develop the practice of dismantling bombs and was indeed killed in the manner described in the book).

That Kip volunteered willingly for military service and trained as a sapper by the Lord Suffolk, an English gentleman, who befriended Kip welcoming him into the family.

Wreay

Visitors to the Plough on Shrove Tuesday 1790 were the local landowner and industrialist John Losh (died 1814), father of Sara and resident at the mansion of Woodside, three miles up the road, Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk, Losh's brother James, and his cousin Joseph Liddell.


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